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     Reuben Lester married Margaret Porter, daughter of Convict George Porter and Susannah Creech Mely O'Brien. Reuben Lester was born in 1821.

     Nancy Letitia was also known as Nancy Letitia Cracknell. She died on 16 March 1995.

     Her married name was Hortle. Irene Pearl Lette married Harold Edmund Elmer Hortle, son of Charles Hortle and Amelia Elmer. Irene Pearl Lette was born in 1892. She died on 29 December 1938 at Mildura Hospital, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, Mildura, Victoria, Australia.¹

     Olivia Esther Lette was born on 24 August 1877 at Westbury, Tasmania, Australia.

     Elizabeth Letts married Alfred Cooper, son of John Cooper and Harriet Newitt. Her married name was Cooper. Elizabeth Letts was born on 12 December 1846 at Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England.

     Francis Lever was born in 1850 at England. He married Maria Martha Lucas, daughter of Nathaniel Lucas and Sarah Nixon, on 21 October 1874 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Francis Lever died on 14 August 1934 at New South Wales, Australia.

     Edward Philip Levy-Thomas was born on 16 June 1844. He was baptized on 16 February 1845; Minister: Thomas W Bodenham

Index No. 1681
Entry No. 1845-12. He died in 1873.

     Hannah Sophia Levy-Thomas was born on 25 August 1851. She was baptized on 21 September 1851; Minister: Rev Henry T. Stiles

Index No. 2027
Entry No. 1851-33. She died in 1873.

     Henry Marshall Levy-Thomas was born on 1 February 1847. He was baptized on 10 October 1847; Minister: Rev Henry T. Stiles

Index No. 1837
Entry No. 1847-35. He died in 1873.

     Joseph Richard Levy-Thomas was born on 29 January 1838. He was baptized on 23 September 1838; Minister: Rev Henry T. Stiles
Index No. 1305
Entry No. 1292. He died in 1869.

     Samuel Devine Levy-Thomas was born on 10 May 1849. He was baptized on 2 September 1849; Minister: Rev Henry T. Stiles
Index No. 1937
Entry No. 1849-30.

     Thomas Barnett Levy-Thomas was born on 16 January 1842 Minister: Rev Henry T. Stiles

Index No. 1512
Entry No. 1842-4. He was baptized on 6 February 1842 Entry No: 1292

Index No: 1305. He died in 1901.

     Barnard Thomas Levy was born in 1795. He married Rebecca Devine, daughter of Edward Doyle Devine and Rosetta Pearson, on 17 May 1836 at Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia; Married By Banns With consent of his Excellency the Governor.

Witnessess: JAMES DUNSTON, OF WILBERFORCE; PHILIP DEVINE,OFWILBERFORCE

Minister: -M D MEARES. Barnard Thomas Levy died on 23 March 1873 at Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.

     (?) Lewis died on 8 September 1925. She was born on 8 September 1925.

     (?) Lewis was born between 1867 and 1887. He married Mary Alice Cartland, daughter of James Edwin Cartland and Mary Eliza Cox Meander, between 1898 and 1915. (?) Lewis died between 1901 and 1973.

     (?) Lewis was born in 1860.¹

     Her married name was Price.¹ Alberta Cordelia Lewis was born on 16 July 1888 at Tasmania, Australia. She married Hugh Herbert Price, son of George James Price and Rachel Elizabeth Collier- Smith, on 30 December 1908 at St. John the Baptist Church, 120 Goulburn Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.² Alberta Cordelia Lewis lived in 1967 at 395 Brooker Avenue, Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 8 March 1967 at Tasmania, Australia, at age 78. She was buried on 10 March 1967 at Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania, Australia, Site FG 75, Q.³

     Alice Mary Hannah Lewis Pensioner at time of death. Her married name was Smith. She was born on 24 June 1874. She married James Smith, son of William Smith and Matilda Anne Cowen, in 1902. Alice Mary Hannah Lewis died on 13 January 1947 at Tasmania, Australia, at age 72. She was buried on 15 January 1947 at Dover General Cemetery, Dover, Tasmania, Australia.

     Private Arthur William Lewis served in Australian Imperial Force, Boer War,

Nominal Roll

Arthur Lewis

Number
2052
Rank
Private
Unit
3BN AUST CMNWLTH HORSE (TAS)
State
TAS. He was born on 17 October 1883. He married Amelia Elsie Nash on 20 April 1920 at Tasmania, Australia. Private Arthur William Lewis Arthur began his education at the Cocky Renald’s School in Mathers Lane, off Liverpool Street. He went to school in wired up boots.

During his time at school and maybe afterwards he used to spend time in the bush at McCrobie’s Gully with his friends. They would often swim in the big pond at the top end of Forest Road. The lads spent alot of their free time in the bush on the big hill above where he lived.

In 1900 and to Arthur and his brother Benjamin Lewis joined up to go to the Boar War in South Africa. When he returned from the war he built a hut in 1908 halfway on the Newtown Track on the lower side of Mount Wellington.

His sister Evelyn Sophia married Walter Maddock of Kingston, 21st January 1894. Arthur and his brother Benjamin would often go with their sister Evelyn. They frequently walked two Cleans Down, a distance of 144 miles from Hobart, to see their elder brother Oscar James Lewis. They would practice a week before to get fit.
On the way they would stay with two farmers.

When Merrill was about two years old his father took them and his mother up through McCrobie’s Gully to visit the Mush hut. He also took his family to visit with his sister, Joseph saying any Lewis,themarried William Newman McGinnis, who used at Port Arthur.
As she is lacked a then moved to Oyster Cove opposite BruniIsland. Arthur was a house painter, and he also worked inside thehouse. Hewould put galvanized iron on houses and fix up the support pillars underneath.
He was also able to make furniture.

Arthur stay in Hobart to get worked, but he moved into his eldest brother's home (Richard Joseph Lewis) at Taranna, Tasman Peninsular.

In May 1935 he bought a home in Bayfield Street Bellerive and the family lived there for 40 years. in 1935 at Tasmania, Australia. He lived in 1958 at Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 7 May 1958 at age 74. He was buried on 8 May 1958 at Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania, Australia, Section B, Site 203.

     Benjamin Lewis was born in 1865 at Tasmania, Australia.¹ He married Lavinia Winifred Muckeridge, daughter of Mary Ann Hickson, in 1896 at Tasmania, Australia.¹ Benjamin Lewis died on 25 September 1948 at Tasmania, Australia. His body was cremated on 27 September 1948 at Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania, Australia.

     Benjamin Neal Lewis lived at Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia. He Benjamin and Charlotte Had no children. He was born on 3 August 1878 at Tasmania, Australia.¹ He married Charlotte Ann Brown on 19 January 1916 at New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia. Benjamin Neal Lewis died on 13 October 1965 at age 87. He was buried on 26 October 1965 at Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania, Australia.